Articles by Tom Beedham

James Holden Destroyed a Hammond Organ Scoring Chris Kelly's 'A Cambodian Spring'

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019

British producer and Bedroom Community label head James Holden — who takes a call for an interview with Exclaim! from his West London studi...

James Holden

A Cambodian Spring

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2019

Filmed over six years, from 2009 to 2015, Irish director Chris Kelly's observational documentary A Cambodian Spring tracks a community livi...

Kid Koala

Music To Draw To: Io

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2019

Far out amongst the moons of Jupiter and ancient Greek myth, Kid Koala is looking at star maps as he sets the course for a cosmic drift wit...

Kid Koala Channels Greek Myth on 'Music To Draw To: Io'

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2019

It's the week leading up the release of Kid Koala's new album Music To Draw To: Io, and the artist born Eric San is hibernating.   "I think...

Thomas Fehlmann

1929 - Das Jahr Babylon

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2018

Following an album he conceived as a companion to the director's 2009 marathon documentary program 24h Berlin, 2010's Gute Luft, 1929 - Das...

Canadian Composers Like Jeremy Dutcher, Chilly Gonzales and Jean-Michel Blais Broke Free in 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2018

Boundaries feel increasingly obsolete, yet more profoundly real than ever, and as such, the year's most forward-thinking music came from co...

Joseph Shabason Makes Peace With His Mother's Parkinson's on 'Anne'

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2018

A member of Vancouver indie rock band Destroyer and Toronto pop outfit DIANA, and a go-to session performer for acts like Fucked Up and the...

Joseph Shabason

Anne

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2018

Formed around interviews he conducted with his mother, and based on how she views herself through the lens of her Parkinson's disease, at i...